Alumni

Yao-ming Tsai

Dissertation: Searching for the Origins of Mahāyāna and Moving toward a Better Understanding of Early Mahāyāna[electronic resource](link is external). 1997. 241 p.

Trent Walker

Trent Walker is a Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Department of Thai Language, Chulalongkorn University (October 2018–September 2020). His dissertation, Unfolding Buddhism: Communal Scripts, Localized Translations, and the Work of the Dying in Cambodian Chanted Leporellos(link is external), was completed under the supervision of Alexander von Rospatt in 2018. He is...

Bruce Williams

Emphasis: Chinese

Dissertation: Mea Maxima Vikalpa: Repentance, Meditation, and the Dynamics of Liberation in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, 500-650 CE[electronic resource](link is external). 2002. 274 p.

Teri Yamada

Professor Shaffer Yamada (b. 1949) studied both classical Chinese and Sanskrit languages as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies before moving on to the University of California, Berkeley. There she continued her studies in classical Asian languages, adding Tibetan and modern Japanese, in order to pursue a comparative philological analysis of classical texts. From 1979-1986, she lived in Tokyo, Japan, where she studied in the departments of Indian and Buddhist Philosophy (University of Tokyo) and Buddhist...